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Joy Labinjo, ​Untitled,​ 2018.
Image courtesy of Tiwani Contemporary and ART X Lagos

ART X Lagos

Access Bank ART X Prize Winner and Programme Announced

The ART X Lagos announced photographer Etinosa Yvonne the winner of the 2019…

Osei Bonsu. Photo by Matt Greenwood, Tate Photography

Tate Modern London

Osei Bonsu Named Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art of Africa

Tate Modern London announced Osei Bonsu as new curator of Modern and Contemporary…

Fanyana-Hlabangane, Poolside Boy (From the series Silent Conversations) Kopie.tif

Bamako Encouters 2019

Rencontres de Bamako Reveals Participating Artists for 2019

Rencontres de Bamako (Bamako Encounters), the biennial dedicated to African photography and video,…

Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2020, selected artists: Jumana Emil Abboud. Photo: Colin Davison. Jimena Croceri. Photo: Triana Leborans. Christian Nyampeta, Iki Yos Piña Narváez & Jota Mombaça. Courtesy Villa Vassilieff - Pernod Ricard Fellowship.

Pernod Ricard Fellowship

Selected Artist For Pernod Ricard Fellowship

Pernod Ricard and Villa Vassilieff announced the selected 2020 Pernod Ricard Fellows: Jumana…

Eva Langret; Photograph by Deniz Guzel

Frieze London

Eva Langret Appointed Artistic Director

Starting in November 2019, Langret to lead on the strategic development and artistic…

Bronwyn Katz, Droom boek, 2017, Salvaged bed springs and mattress, 180 x 150cm, blank projects

FNB Art Joburg

Bronwyn Katz wins the FNB Art Prize 2019

As the most recent recipient of the FNB Art Prize, Bronwyn Katz ,represented by blank projects, joins…

Lebohang Kganye, Ka 2-phisi yaka e pinky II, 2013, from the series: Ke Lefa Laka: Her-Story, 2013. Courtesy: AFRONOVA GALLERY, Johannesburg.

Camera Austria Award

Lebohang Kganye Honoured with the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography

The jury considers Kganye’s work an important contribution to the global photographic scene…

C& Center For Unfinished Business, Installation view. Copyright: C&. Photo: Florian Bong-Kil Grosse

C& Focus

Show Me Your Shelves!

In a rare constellation “Show me your Shelves! Libraries as spaces of encounter”…

South African Artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Receives the 15th Tollman Award

Tollman Award for the Visual Arts

South African Artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Receives the 15th Tollman Award

Known for her incisive portraits which grapple with both iconography and iconoclasm, Thenjiwe…

Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Fortress - The Building Series IV. Courtesy Goodman Gallery.

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Kiluanji Kia Henda wins the 2019 sculpture commission

After Ibrahim El Salahi in 2018, this year Kiluanji Kia Henda has been selected…

C& Special Print Issue #Detroit, 2019. Photo: C&

Out now!

C& Special Print Issue #Detroit: THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU

For our second C& Special Print Issue in English and German a young…

(from left to right) Oupa Sibeko, Helena Uambembe and Wezile Mgibe.

2019 David Koloane Award

Winners of 2019 David Koloane Award announced

Bag Factory Artists’ Studios celebrates the tenth edition of the annual David Koloane…